Announcement-board.



.1T. KING. v ANNOUNCEMENT BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 18, 1908.

943,941 Patented Dec. 21, 1909.

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ANNOUNCEMENT BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED MAR? 1a, 1908.

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" T" .tiliilliu WILLIAIVI NEPHEVI KING, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ANNOUNCEMENT-BOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

latented Dec. 21, 19 99.

Application filed March 18, 1908. Serial No. 421,775.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, YVILLIAM Nnrrmw Kins, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful improvements in Announcement- Boards, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to announcement boards, and especially to thoseused in quoting or announcing prices and information about stocks. Itmay, however, be used for other announcements, for advertising purposesor displays of various kinds.

Gne of the objects of the invention is to provide a board that can bereadily moved from one place to another-out on the floor during businesshours and removed and stored after the close of the market.

Another object is to provide a board that the quotations thereon can bereadily observed.

Another object is to so construct the board that the differentquotations can be readily changed.

Other objects will appear from the hereinafter description.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which form apart of this application, and in the different views, in wl ich the samereference character tofers to the same part.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a front elevation of the board.Fig. 2 is a cross section on line 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail viewon a large scale showing one of the cards carrying the quotation. Fig.&' is an enlarged detail view of the means for holding said card.

The part marked it on the drawing is what may be termed the boardproper, which is supported upon a knockdown easel B. This board it restsupon pins 6, o, of the easel, and it consists of a back piece a two endpieces (4 top and bottom pieces a at, and a front piece a forming a boxlike construction. Secured to the back piece is a reflector C,preferably a mirror. Secured in the space between the mirror and thefront piece is a light, preferably a Cooperiewitt light D, althoughother means of illumination may be employed.

To the front a is secured a series of horizontal strips E and verticalstrips F, dividing the front of the board into a series of spaces 5 g g9 g and g Tie material in the spaces g, g and g is opaque withtranslucent letters formed therein. The letters in the space 9 form tl ename of the firm using the board; those in the spaces g form theheadings, such as Stocks, Open Last and Latest news, and the letters in9 also translucent, are the initials or ab breviations of the stocksquoted. The rest of the front plate is translucent, and the horizontaland vertical strips over this translucent part are opaque. These opaquehorizontal strips have an undercut portion on their lower edges forminggrooves G represents removable translucent plates, preferably made ofglass, celluloid, or any other like material suitable to carry the stockquotations and the latest news in opaque letters. These plates can bereadily placed on or removed from the board by slipping the upper edgethereof in the grooved portion 2 of the strips hereinabove referred to.

in use, the board is set up on the easel in any desired place, andreadily changed from one location to another by moving it on the casters6. It is to be understood that the board may be set up in other waysthan on an easel, this being my preferred means of setting it up whenused for stock announcements.

Vi hen the light is turned on it is reflected forward by the mirror C,and the letters and figures appear on either the opaque or trans lucentportion of the front plate, the letters being in sharp contrast to thebackground. As the quotations change, the attendant removes thetranslucent card carrying the iuotations and substitutes another,repeating this operation at each change of the latest news.

its many changes could be made in the above construction and manyapparently widely different embodiments of my invention could be madewithout departing from the scope thereof, I intend that all mattercontained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawingsshall be in terpreted as illustrative and not in a limit ing sense. Idesire it also to be understood that the language used in the followingclaims intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of theinvention herein described and all s atements of the scope of theinvention, which, as a matter of language, might be said to falltherebetween.

Having now described my invention, whathis I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letplate, one edge of each strip being plain and ters Patentis: the other having an undercut part forming a 1. In a device of theclass described, a reflange, translucent cards having opaque flector, atranslucent plate separated from characters thereon between said Stripsand 5 the reflector, vertical and horizontal strips removably held inplace by said flange, and 20 dividing the plate into sections, thehorizona source of light between the plate and retal strips havingprojections thereon, transflector. lucent cards having opaque letters,said cards In Witness whereof I have hereunto set located between saidhorizontal strips and my hand at the city, county and State of 10 heldin place by said projections, and a New York, this twentieth day ofFebruary, 25

source of light between the plate and re- 1908.

I flector. t WILLIAM NEPHElV KING.

2. In a device of the class described, a re- In presence of flector, atranslucent plate separated from FRANK T. EARLE, 5 the reflector,horizontal strips secured to the 1 VVM. F. EWING.

